I have had this problem on my laptop. It is a fresh copy of Windows XP w/ sp2. I loaded no drivers onto it, installed nothing but zone alarm suite. I plug in the Ethernet to do windows update. SP3 being the first one. Installed it, rebooted. Now whenever I plug in an ethernet, or turn on wireless (the on off powersaver switch on the side) my computer locks up. As in no program will open. ctl+alt+delete. Nothing. Mouse moves, thats about it.
This is the second time I have reinstalled. Last time same thing, but I used the ethernet to DL all the drivers from Toshiba, and installed them, same outcome. I talked to a friend and he said to boot up in safe mode and look at the error log. I will do that in a second. Just wanted to get this posted then start working again.
I am very computer literate. So dont feel like you need to dumb down things to much.
Thanks guys!
Casey
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A bit more info. I got into safe mode and went to even viewer. All of the errors are either with "Service Control Manager" and extra info on it is "the kI1 service failed to start due to the following error: the sustem cannot find the file specified" (then gives me a link, checking now)
and the other error is with "SideBySide" extra info is "Dependent Asspebly Microsoft.VC80.CRT could not be found and Last Error was The referanced assemply is not installed on your system
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